what to delete in /usr

[Chris Aitken]

Tom Legrady wrote:

> In theory, /usr contains the software you run, and the man pages, and  
> other related stuff ... none of which changes. In some business  
> environments, /usr is mounted read-only. It could even be a CD. So  
> whether it is 1% full or 99% full shouldn't matter. At least, until  
> you want to install more software
>
> What I don't see here is /tmp. 

[chris at a800 chris]$ df /tmp
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              1004024    253916    699104  27% /

> Is it just part of /?

Yes

> is it a symbolic  link to /usr/tmp?

I don't know how to figure that out...

>
> How many programs were you running at the time? 

OO and Mozilla.

> OOo is a memory hog.  How much RAM do you have?

256 MB

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